[mm讨论]新prep2-172

Hendy

天蝎座1107 发表于 2009-3-25 17:51
Since February, the Federal Reserve has raised its short-term interest rate target five times, and b ...

解释的漂亮，同时对于B中的with短语的主语应该是主句主语，大家怎么看

Hendy

老外那copy来的不知道有用没
"due to" means "caused by".
if you can't replace "due to" with "caused by", then it's wrong.

for instance:

i was late due to the construction --> incorrect (because you can't say "i was late caused by the construction")

i was late because of the construction --> correct.

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in general, "due to" only applies to nouns, since it means "caused by".

for instance,
the traffic jam was due to an obstruction in the left lane
or
the traffic jam due to the obstruction in the left lane caused 30-minute delays